The Trump Depression
Donald Trump is on track to be the first president to deliberately engineer a severe depression.
by Robert Kuttner, Prospect.org
In assessing how past presidents dealt with catastrophic downturns, you might give Herbert Hoover an F, Franklin Roosevelt an A, and Barack Obama a C-. But no other president has gone out of his way to create a collapse.
There are several distinct elements of the coming Trump depression, all cutting in the same direction, all interacting with each other, all needless.


